Black Sabbath, British band whose bludgeoning brand of rock defined heavy metal in the 1970s. Their songs ‘Paranoid,’‘Iron Man,’ and ‘War Pigs’ became metal classics, and by the end of the decade they had become the standard against which metal ba
Ozzfest and reunion with Black Sabbath Osbourne found his first solo Top 40 hit with “Mama, I’m Coming Home” from the albumNo More Tears(1991), and in 1993 he won aGrammy Awardfor best metal performance for the song “I Don’t Want to Change the World.” Despite announcing his ret...
Black Sabbath co-founder, guitarist Tony Iommi, spoke to Greg Prato forSongfactsabout both the Dio and Ozzy eras, and recounted how he came up with one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time. An excerpt follows:
"War Pigs" is the lead off track fromParanoid, Sabbath's second record, which many consider to be the band's ultimate masterpiece (and even thebest metal album of all time). Before the album was released, the band intended to call the recordWar Pigs, in reference to the ...
They represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythological and horned form of the GOD PAN; thence came the he-goat of the Sabbath, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the Light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the ...
Death certificates were newly required in 1909, and undertakers sometimes struggled to complete the personal information section accurately. The basic facts are clear though. Fifty-two-year-oldBasil B. Tyler, a minister and native of Piscataway, Maryland, was “killed suddenly by falling timbers.”...
(hahaha), or no samples of other Sabbath songs. They just started right in with the sirens of War Pigs. The red lights were going before the curtain went up, it was a cool looking effect. I’ve seen some reviews that talk about their thoughts on every single song played. I’m not ...
They represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythological and horned form of the GOD PAN; thence came the he-goat of the Sabbath, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the Light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the ...
Nice fast track. It’s not like “old Metallica fast” fast, but it’s got a nice faster pace than your standard Sabbath track. I like this track a lot, but for some reason I can’t find much to say about it. BobFacts™:According to Bob Daisley, this about someone whose past ...
"War Pigs" is the lead off track fromParanoid, Sabbath's second record, which many consider to be the band's ultimate masterpiece (and even thebest metal album of all time). Before the album was released, the band intended to call the recordWar Pigs, in reference to the ...